Book People Archive

Re: The "Bookmarks" in a well-ordered PDF should be the page numbers

> pay better attention, stewart!
> 
> of course you can jump to a .pdf page via its .pdf page-number,
> but we are discussing the situation where there's a discrepancy
> between the .pdf page-number and the original page-number.

So why did you say:

>> furthermore, the user cannot enter a number into the page-number box
>> in the acrobat reader software and then be instantly jumped to that page.
>> instead, you've got to page through a list of hundreds of page-numbers,
>> until you've visually identified the one you want, which you must click on.
>> 
>> all that is _way_ too much hassle for me.  when i want to go to page 123,
>> i want to type in "123" and then press <enter> and then _just_be_there_.
>> (i'd like to be able to do it without even clicking in the page-number box.)

?

[Moderator: I believe Bowerbird's statement above was specifically replying
 to Nick Hodson's suggestion of using bookmarks for page numbers to address
 the discrpeancy between "page n" and the nth page of the document.
 If you track the book page number via bookmarks instead of in
 the PDF paging, you can't use the page-number box to jump directly
 to a particular page number of a book.

 Since then, it's been noted here that some PDF files and viewers do support
 using "logical" page numbers (e.g. "page 8" as opposed to "the 8th page") 
 directly.  I'd be interested in knowing more about which versions
 of PDF and which PDF readers and tools other than Adobe Acrobat/Reader 7
 support this. - JMO]